The Hunt (2020)
Not to be confused with the Thomas Vinterberg movie, The Hunt is a Blumhouse thriller where liberal elites take cancel culture to the extreme by hunting conservative “deplorables” for sport. Ironically […]
Not to be confused with the Thomas Vinterberg movie, The Hunt is a Blumhouse thriller where liberal elites take cancel culture to the extreme by hunting conservative “deplorables” for sport. Ironically […]
Operation Avalanche is the second feature from Matt Johnson, the maverick filmmaker behind Nirvanna the Band the Show. Anyone familiar with that brilliant series will be unsurprised to learn that […]
A group of Hollywood executives defile the deceased stars of a 1970s TV series in this drivellous rehash of Fantasy Island. Currently sporting a surprisingly generous 7% on Rotten Tomatoes, […]
Available on iPlayer for another four days, Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things is a 2019 documentary about a woman with considerably better timing than us. Leslie Woodhead’s film […]
A group of teenagers interrupt a hillbilly fishing trip in this sar-donic slasher from 2010. Probably the most interesting slasher flick since Scream, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil retells a […]
The dispassionate sensationalism of True Crime continues to seep into sensitive cultural environments in this new Billie Holiday documentary. It starts with ominous text introducing the late journalist Linda Kuehl […]
Four businessmen (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox) take a canoe trip down a Georgia river before it – and they – are dammed. Before temporarily scuppering his career with Zardoz, […]
We now return to our regularly scheduled programme of reviewing all the films Michael Owen hasn’t seen. More a threat than a title, Batman Forever stars Val Kilmer as Gotham’s […]
Our final instalment in the Michael Owen film club is this karate klassic from the director of Rocky. Undeterred by Owen’s future review of Rocky (“It’s rubbish”), director John G. […]
“Wasn’t great” was Michael Owen’s two-word review of this 1995 showdown between the cop (Al Pacino), the thief (Robert De Niro), his wife (Diane Venora) and her lover (Xander Berkeley). […]